Approaches to System Safety

In International Radiation Protection Society. Radiation protection A systemic approach to safety Proceedings of the 5th congress of the International Radiation Protection Society, Jerusalem, March 1980. New York Pergamon Press, 607-610. 

Any specific realization of this general systems engineering process depends on the engineering models used for the system components and the desired system qualities. For safety, the models commonly used to understand why and how accidents occur have been based on events, particularly failure events, and the use of reliability engineering techniques to prevent them. Part II of this book further details the alternative systems approach to safety introduced in this chapter, while part 111 provides techniques to perform many of these safety and system engineering activities. 

Most people want to run safe organizations, but they may misunderstand the tradeoffs required and how to accomplish the goals. This chapter and the book as a whole have tried to correct misperceptions and provide advice on how to create safer products and organizations. Ihe next chapter provides a real-life example of a successful systems approach to safety. 

Take a systems approach to safety in both development and operations... 

Leveson, Nant G., Nicolas Dulac, Karen Marais, and John Carroll. (February/March 2009). Moving beyond normal accidents and high reliability organizations A systems approach to safety in complex systems Organization Studies 30227-249. 

In their paper on A Systems Approach to Safety in a Multi-Crew Aircraft , the authors discuss a useful model (tailored in Fig. 10.6) to assess the flow of events which will occur following an initial error made by the pilot. 

Harris, D., Howard, R., Cook, S., February 12, 2002. A Systems Approach to Safety in a Multicrew AircrafL an INCOSE UK Paper V3. Systems Engineering and Evaluation Centre, University of South Australia, Mason Lakes Campus, Adelaide, Australia. 

This systemic approach to safety management consists of a set of five necessary and sufficient interrelated... 

A joint conference of safety practitioners, led by the System Safety Society chapter in Washington, D.C., did much to expose the full capabilities of the systems approach to safety. The meeting produced a list of more than thirty techniques and approaches for use in system safety that were fully covered in the Journal of the System Safety Society. At least three interesting points emerged ... 

Joe Stephenson makes practical the application of system safety techniques to safety and health problems not previously amenable to system safety solutions. Seeing the forest instead of the trees is a unique contribution of this book. The interaction of many disciplines and specialties can be seen. This book is a common ground for assessing a systems approach to safety and health disciplines and practice. 

SYSTEMS APPROACHES TO SAFETY NASA AND THE SPACE SHUTTLE DISASTERS... 

McDonald s observations, 341 mindfid processing, 169, 173 structurally induced Inaction, 191 systems approaches to safety, 282... 

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